Justin Driver has an interesting article tracing the legal influences on President Obama, specifically Laurence Tribe, his professor at Harvard, and Cass Sunstein, his colleague at the University of Chicago.

In The Lochner Ness Monster, Commentary Magazine reviews Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform. The title suggests a fair-handed analysis of progressive reform by a Professor at George Mason School of Law. Lochner’s progeny outlawed, among other things, (1) the state’s ability to ban “Yellow Dog Contracts” – wherein an employee agrees not to join a labor union, (2) minimum wage laws, and (my favorite) (3) striking down child-labor laws. Oh to have been an American 100 years ago.

Doctors recently tested a new “beatless” heart in a human being for the first time – amazing!!!